MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 46090 Freight car set with five cars

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KEY DATA
Product Name	46090 Freight car set with five cars
Object type	Car-Tank
Product Line	Marklin
Era	1925-1945 (II)
Manufactured years	2006-2008
Type of housing	Syntetic/Metall
Length	54.1 cm
Nationality	Germany
Railway company	- DRG Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (1920/24-1937)
Märklin RRP (Year)	139€ (2008)
Koll valuation (Year)	70€ (2022)
Url to Märklin	Klick to GoTo www.maerklin.de

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No	Baseline	Obj.No	Obj.txt	Category	Description
46090-01	45801	937	Deutsche Reichsbahn - Karlsruhe	Ow	High sided car - brown
46090-02	46426	515 102	Deutsche Reichsbahn - Ludwigshafen	Bz	Tank car with brakeman cab -black with gray tank and brown cab
46090-03	46036	13 489	Deutsche Reichsbahn - Wuppertal	K	High sided covered car - brown - weathered
46090-04	46033	22 358	Deutsche Reichsbahn -	Om	High sided gondola car loaded with coal - brown - brakeman cab
46090-05	48750	86 352	Deutsche Reichsbahn -	Gr	Box car - brown

Description
Freight Car Set. Four DRG cars and a privately owned car: type K gondola with hinged roof hatches, Wuppertal Association design. High side gondola with a brakemans cab, Essen type Om. Boxcar with a brakemans cab, Kassel type Gr. Gondola with medium high walls, peaked end walls, and ridge pole. Privately owned tank car with a brakemans cab, used on the DRG. Source: www.maerklin.de DRG Freight Service - Era II for the German State Railroad Company (DRG) extended from 1920 to 1945. The image of freight trains from this era was very much characterized by long consists of two-axle cars. Freight cars with more axles or with trucks were the exception then. The consists usually conveyed the image of a colorful mix of all kinds of different car designs, because the individual provincial railroads participated in the founding of the DRG with their existing pools of cars. The DRG also introduced air brakes on all of the cars. Although this innovation did away with the need for protection against the weather for brakemen, the brakemans cabs remained for a long time even on rebuilt cars. In addition, the freight train service that went all over Germany now under the DRG management made for a large variety of cars on the railroad, because transport by road was hardly an alternative at that time. Hence, at that time almost any kind of freight you could imagine was shipped by rail, particularly over long routes. The variety in loads resulting from this situation also provided a colourful look to freight train consists.

Description

Freight Car Set.

Four DRG cars and a privately owned car: type K gondola with hinged roof hatches, Wuppertal Association design. High side gondola with a brakemans cab, Essen type Om. Boxcar with a brakemans cab, Kassel type Gr. Gondola with medium high walls, peaked end walls, and ridge pole. Privately owned tank car with a brakemans cab, used on the DRG.

Source: www.maerklin.de
DRG Freight Service - Era II for the German State Railroad Company (DRG) extended from 1920 to 1945. The image of freight trains from this era was very much characterized by long consists of two-axle cars. Freight cars with more axles or with trucks were the exception then. The consists usually conveyed the image of a colorful mix of all kinds of different car designs, because the individual provincial railroads participated in the founding of the DRG with their existing pools of cars. The DRG also introduced air brakes on all of the cars. Although this innovation did away with the need for protection against the weather for brakemen, the brakemans cabs remained for a long time even on rebuilt cars. In addition, the freight train service that went all over Germany now under the DRG management made for a large variety of cars on the railroad, because transport by road was hardly an alternative at that time. Hence, at that time almost any kind of freight you could imagine was shipped by rail, particularly over long routes. The variety in loads resulting from this situation also provided a colourful look to freight train consists.

MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 46090 Freight car set with five cars

AN EXTRACT FROM MODEL RAIL WORKSHOP - H0 MÄRKLIN DATABASE Feel free to copy and use.....

AN EXTRACT FROM MODEL RAIL WORKSHOP - H0 MÄRKLIN DATABASE

Feel free to copy and use.....